Re: Purpose of INLINE_INSERTCOPYING variable

[Hans-Bernhard Bröker]

Am 28.06.2017 um 22:54 schrieb Gavin Smith:
> I would like to remove the code for the INLINE_INSERTCOPYING variable
> in texi2any, as it doesn't seem to be used anywhere, and it seems to me
> to be unnecessary.

Hmm... isn't that a rather big jump from the existing TODO item:

> Use INLINE_INSERTCOPYING as the default for some formats?

So until now it was considered to be turned on by default(!) for some 
output formats, and instead you now want to remove it entirely, for all 
of them?

Also it's currently a documented feature, and has been for at least 7 
years now:

> $ svn log  -c r3092 texinfo.texi
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r3092 | pertusus | 2010-07-19 01:01:02 +0200 (Mo, 19. Jul 2010) | 6 Zeilen
>
>         * doc/texinfo.txi (Generic converter texi2any/makeinfo): add a
>         chapter for texi2any/makeinfo. Merge Invoking makeinfo and
>         makeinfo options and put it in the chapter as Invoking texi2any,
>         together with Pointer Validation and the description of
>         texi2any Configuration variables.

So there's a considerable chance that some documents out there, or their 
build environments, rely on it, and if they do, it'll be generating 
their _legally_crucial_ copyright notice, no less!  Throwing it out 
without so much as a deprecation phase first feels wrong, even given the 
"Warning: " paragraph at the top of "info texinfo Generic Customization"